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Set Up VPS on Linode - Part 3

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Continuing from Part 1 and Part 2 about setting up VPS on Linode, here's the final episode on deployment from local repo to remote server with version control, and deploy on production instance.

Create Group for Developers​

List all the user groups on apollo:

cut -d: -f1 /etc/group

Check the primary group for a user (g for primary):

id -gn userjoe

Check all the groups for a user (G for secondary):

id -Gn userjoe

Create a new group:

groupadd developers

Add existing users to this new group:

sudo usermod -aG developers userjoe
sudo usermod -aG developers usersmith

Create Git Repo on Production​

On production instance apollo:

cd /var
sudo mkdir repo && cd repo
sudo mkdir site.git && cd site.git

Change the ownership and group for repo folder in order to initialize git successfully

sudo chown userjoe:developers /var/repo

sudo /home/herbertyang/.nix-profile/bin/git init --bare

There are probably a few more steps down the road. Between Stack Overflow and Digital Ocean, instructions are abundant and easily available.

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